Minor: Electrical Engineering

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OVERVIEW OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Minimum number of credits required to earn minor: 22

GPA requirements to earn minor: 2.0

Minimum Grade requirements for courses to count toward minor: No grades below C-.

Contact Information: Donald Hummels, Chair and Castle Professor, 101 Barrows Hall, 207-581-2223, donald.hummels@maine.edu

PLEASE NOTE: This minor is not available to Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Engineering majors.

The Electrical Engineering Minor is designed to provide engineering majors outside of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and students from other disciplines an introduction to the wide-ranging content of the electrical engineering major. The minor consists of 15 credit hours of required courses and a minimum of six credit hours of ECE elective courses.

Core Courses: (16 credit hours)

ECE 177 - Introduction to Programming for Engineers Credits: 4
ECE 210 - Electric Circuits Credits: 4
ECE 214 - Electrical Circuits Laboratory Credits: 2
ECE 275 - Sequential Logic Systems Credits: 3
ECE 314 - Signals and Systems Credits: 3

Examples of Optional Courses: (6 credit hours minimum)

Generally, any 300 or 400 level ECE course can be used as an optional course

ECE 316 - Random Signal Analysis Credits: 3
ECE 342 - Electronics I Credits: 4
ECE 343 - Electronics II Credits: 4
ECE 351 - Fields and Waves Credits: 3
ECE 417 - Introduction to Robotics Credits: 3
ECE 427 - Electric Power Systems Credits: 3
ECE 453 - Microwave Engineering Credits: 4
ECE 462 - Introduction to Basic Semiconductor Devices and Associated Circuit Models Credits: 3
ECE 464 - Microelectronics Science and Engineering Credits: 3
ECE 450 - Power Electronics Credits: 3
ECE 451 - Power Electronics Lab Credits: 1
ECE 455 - Electric Drives Credits: 3
ECE 456 - Electric Drives Lab Credits: 1
ECE 465 - Introduction to Sensors Credits: 3